Re: Standard Development Integration

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 4 Jan 2000 19:19:34 +0000 (GMT)


> How does the versioning work. Doy uo just plop features into
> 2.3.x, and when they all work, put it into a new 2.2.x? Also,=20
> when do you decide the kernel has developed sufficiently to
> deserve a new major/minor number revision?

We drop features into 2.3.x until its roughly where we want it. Linus then
starts getting very hard to get new features past and the stuff is stabilised
then it pops out probably as 2.4 and we start 2.5 a while later.

> (PS When is ext3 to be introduced?)

As standard, post 2.4, usably - already.

Alan

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